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WHO report, samples result on mysterious deaths of Gambia children still pending: Sources

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Gambia and cough syrups made by Sonipat-based Indian company Maiden pharmaceuticals , sources said.

The Committee formed by the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to investigate this matter has so far conducted three meetings and reviewed the matter.

But without the sample results, WHO reply, and lack of evidence, the Committee has put the further investigation on hold and is no longer conducting meetings, sources told ANI.

As per sources, India’s drug regulator has written several times to the international body but there has been no response. team tried to contact the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) regarding more information on this matter but there was no response.

Earlier, citing the representative of the country’s Medicines Control Agency, Gambian media reports said it has not yet been confirmed that toxic cough syrup was the cause of the deaths of 70 children from acute kidney injury.

Tijan Jallow, the regulatory officer of Gambia’s Medicines Control Agency (MCA) told a newspaper that, “95 per cent of kids that died from the acute Kidney injuries are from flooded areas.”

He said this during an organised press conference.

Last month, WHO said the clinical investigations in The Gambia are still ongoing. “…But the fact is, from the WHO perspective, the investigation into the causal relationship between the use of medication, contaminated, substandard medication and deaths, this investigation and any further information has to be provided by the Ministry of Health in Gambia,” said Dr Mariangela Simao, during a virtual press conference.

“We’re working very closely with them,” she added.

Prisoner strangled to death during ‘violent altercation’ with 6 guards, autopsy finds

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The autopsy revealed Desir died by strangulation (Image: Getty)

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The autopsy revealed the 43-year-old Florida man was while being violently restrained by six jailers. The findings come after an official autopsy, conducted by the prison’s medical examiner’s office, ruled the cause of death as undetermined.

However, a private autopsy report, recently obtained by the Guardian, found that the inmate was killed during an altercation with six prison staff at the North Broward Bureau facility.

The jail is operated by the Broward county sheriff’s office (BSO) in south Florida and specifically detains inmates who have mental and physical disabilities.

Kevin Desir was arrested on January 13, 2021, for marijuana possession but four days later he became unresponsive after getting into an altercation with officers and he never regained consciousness.

On January 17, 2021, Mr Desir was handcuffed, punched repeatedly, tasered, and pepper sprayed by officers, the Guardian reports.

Mr Desir lost consciousness when the prison workers attempted to strap him into a restraint chair.

One deputy interlocked hands on Desir’s neck from behind and used “his body weight to leverage Desir back into the chair”, according to a memo from the Broward county state attorney’s office.

Mr Desir died 10 days later in hospital and an autopsy by the Broward county medical examiner’s office was launched the following day.

It said the cause of death was undetermined.

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The prison’s medical examination office previously said the death was undetermined (Image: Getty)

The state attorney’s office has since announced it was declining to prosecute any of the six officers involved, declaring that Desir’s death was justifiable.

The late inmate’s grieving family has been fighting to get answers ever since.

Around the same time, Desir’s family requested a private autopsy, which found he died from “manual strangulation” and concluded that his death was a homicide after “neck and carotid arteries [were] compressed” during “law enforcement restraint attempt”.

The family’s lawyer, Jeremy McLymont, said: “The idea that two medical examiners could come up with two completely different causes of death is mind-blowing”.

It took almost 21 months for the private autopsy to be conducted as Broward county sheriff’s office reportedly refused access to several of Desir’s medical records.

Mr McLymont said: “Any time you release half of them but you keep some [documents], that’s an indication that there’s something that they’re hiding, some back-dealing going on.”

The prison authorities have also been accused of suppressing vital video evidence of the fateful day.

Broward Sheriff’s Office’s four jails have been under a consent decree since 1995, which mandates federal monitoring and better conditions in each facility.

Chandigarh: 85 pc of Propofol samples clear tests, all done in Himachal Pradesh

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Propofol , an anaesthesia injection , that is suspected to have caused five deaths at PGI in August have been found contaminated. All the tests were conducted in different laboratories.

Sources said drug controller authorities in Himachal Pradesh had taken 18 samples of the sedative from the suspected batch, the previous and later ones, and found nothing substandard. One sample was collected by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), Chandigarh, from the PGI, while two samples were collected by the PGI from the suspected batch and sent for in-house testing and one was sent by the hospital to pharmacology department in Panjab University.

The reports from the three organisations found the drug failing in sterility and to be toxic. Recently, Nixi Laboratories , the manufacturer of the drug, had gone to the court and challenged the CDSCO’s report. Samples were then sent to the Central Drugs Laboratory, Kolkata, the apex body, for another test. “We also took the suspected batch from the PGI and compared it with the control sample — which is kept with the firm. It was found to fail in contents, which cannot cause any damage to patients,” said an official in the drug control department in Baddi.

Officials in the HP department said they have not received a report from PGI establishing the drug as the cause of the deaths. “If we get such a report from PGI, we will lodge an FIR and take action under a law, where the penalty is imprisonment for a term not less than 10 years and extended to life imprisonment,” said a senior official in HP department.

Women, unemployed, rural poor lagging due to digital divide: Oxfam India Report

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The report looks at CMIE’s data on internet access, mobile ownership, computer, and broadband availability to assess the inclusivity of digital initiatives to deliver public services and entitlements. The report also uses secondary analysis from the National Sample Survey (NSS).

The percentage of men owning phones is as high as 61 per cent while only 31 per cent of women-owned phones in 2021, according to a new report, which claimed that India ‘s growing inequalities based on caste, religion, gender, class, and geographic location are being worryingly replicated in the digital space.

Oxfam India ‘s latest ‘ India Inequality Report 2022: Digital Divide ‘ report said on Monday that the reach of digital technologies remains limited to largely male, urban, upper-caste, and upper-class households and individuals.

“Eight per cent of the General caste have a computer or a laptop whereas less than 1 per cent of the Scheduled Tribes (ST) and 2 per cent of the Scheduled Castes (SC) have it. As per the Mobile Gender Gap report by GSMA , women are less likely to use mobile internet by 33 per cent when compared to men in 2021,” it said.

The report said the percentage of men owning phones is as high as 61 per cent while only 31 per cent of women-owned phones in 2021.

“India’s growing inequalities based on caste, religion, gender, class, and geographic location are being worryingly replicated in the digital space,” it claimed.

The report analyses primary data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s (CMIE) household survey from January 2018 to December 2021.

The report looks at CMIE’s data on internet access, mobile ownership, computer, and broadband availability to assess the inclusivity of digital initiatives to deliver public services and entitlements. The report also uses secondary analysis from the National Sample Survey ( NSS ).

The report revealed a digital divide based on employment status where 95 per cent of the salaried permanent workers have a phone whereas only 50 per cent of the unemployed (willing and looking for a job) have a phone in 2021.

The report also highlights that contrary to popular perception, the use of computer devices decreased in rural areas. Pre-pandemic, only 3 per cent of the rural population owned a computer.

“This has come down to just 1 per cent post-pandemic. Whereas in urban areas, the number of people with computers is 8 per cent,” it said.

The use of digital technologies in delivering essential services such as education and health is also reflecting the country’s digital divide and its consequences, the report said.

Amitabh Behar, CEO of Oxfam India said, “India’s growing inequality is accentuated due to the digital divide. The growing inequality based on caste, religion, gender, class, and geographic location also gets replicated in the digital space. People without devices and the internet get further marginalised due to difficulties in accessing education, health, and public services. This vicious cycle of inequality needs to stop.”

The report recommended that the government’s efforts to bridge India’s current income inequality by improving the income of the poor become pertinent and can go a long way.

This can be done by setting a decent minimum living wage, easing the indirect tax burden on citizens and provision of universal health and education services, it said.

The most basic step toward bridging the digital divide is availability, the report said, underlining that in rural and hard-to-reach areas, internet availability is either intermittent, poor or non-existent.

Service providers need to ensure its availability through community networks and public WiFi/ internet access points. Community networks are a subset of crowdsourced networks, designed to be open, free, and neutral, and often reliant on shared infrastructure as a common resource, it said.

They are usually built, used, and managed with a bottom-up approach by communities. Such networks should also have good-quality upload and download speeds, sufficient for the local needs of internet users, the report said.

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Covid-19: 34,528 new cases reported over the past week, 418 in hospital

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There have been 34,528 new cases of Covid-19 reported across Aotearoa over the past week – more than a quarter of which were reinfections.

The Ministry of Health published the update, covering the period from Monday, November 28, to Sunday, December 4, on Monday afternoon.

This is more than 7400 cases higher than was reported last Monday (27,076).

As of midnight on Sunday, 418​ people were in hospital with the virus – including 10​ who were in an intensive care or high dependency care unit.

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Of the weekly reported cases, 9099​ (26.3%)​ were reinfections, ministry data shows.

Of the 9099 reinfections, 287 occurred within 90 days of a previous infection.

The ministry reported the deaths of 40​ people over the past week: 23​ of which had been attributed to Covid-19 either as the underlying cause of death (11)​ or a contributory factor (12)​.

The cause of death for the remaining 17 people was not yet available, it said.

Of the 40 people who died, one was in their 40s, three were in their 50s, two were in their 60s, eight were in their 70s, 21 were in their 80s, and five were aged over 90.

To date, 2235​ deaths in Aotearoa have been attributed to Covid-19 throughout the pandemic.

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The seven-day rolling average of new reported cases sits at 4926​, the ministry said.

Waitematā (north and west Auckland) was the district with the highest number of new reported Covid-19 cases in the seven days to Sunday: 4908​.

This was followed by Counties Manukau (south and east Auckland), with 4332​ new cases reported over the week, and Canterbury (4160)​.

It comes as the most recent genomics data from ESR (the Institute for Environmental Science and Research) showed the BA.5 Omicron subvariant continues to decline across Aotearoa, making up only about 49%​ of sequenced cases in the past two-week reporting window.

BA.2.75​ is the “fastest-growing” variant, now making up 25%​ of cases, the report – published last week – showed.

In the past fortnight, about 1.9%​ of New Zealand’s Covid-19 cases were sequenced.

ESR noted there were “some locations with emerging variants where genomic surveillance is suboptimal”.

BA.4/5 (40%)​ and BA.2.75 (39%)​ were the dominant variants in wastewater. Detections of BQ.1.1 (12%)​, and XBB (3%)​ were “steady”, as XBC (7%)​ was detected for the first time.

ESR said challenges remain in tracking the growth and locations of new Omicron variants such as BQ.1.1, XBB and XBC due to the “relatively low” number of samples available for genome surveillance.